Combination kitchen-cabinet



PatentedA Feb. 7, |899.

No. |s,994.

A. n. PALMER. COMBINATION KITCHEN CABINET.

(Application 'ma nu. 1s, 189s.)

(No Model.)

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AUSTIN D. PALMER, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

COMBINATION KITCHEN-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,994, dated February 7, 1899.

Application filed January 18, 1898. Serial No. 667.020. (No model.)

durable, inexpensive to manufacture, connpact, so as to occupy as little space as possible and yet answer many useful purposes, which will protect the articles from all kinds of insects and from dust and damp atmosphere, and which is portable, so that it can be moved whenever desirable and left at any suitable place; and this invention consists in the novel combination and construction of parts hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Figure l is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation vof the same. Fig. 3 is a broken sectional view showing how bins are attached to the table. Fig. 4. is a plan view of a basket with several cans therein. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of one of the pockets for holding the cans. Fig. 6 is a broken plan view of the table, showing a variation of the pockets. Fig. 7 illustrates a hanger for a box for holding sundries.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A suitable table H, preferably of wood, is mounted on cast-iron legs E and made steady by the iron braces h, attached to the legs and to the bottom side of the table. The legs E are further braced by the rod p. The table is further strengthened by the molding K and the frieze-board M. Two large apertures are made in the table, and two cylindrical bins A and B are secured to the table in these apertures, the top of the bins being nailed to the table from the inside. These bins are provided with cork-lined vents g, it being necessary to have vents for the purpose of cleaning the bins. The bins A and B are provided with folding lids D and C, respectively. These lids are hinged to a cross-piece F, which is secured to the table. These lids cover the bins securely andmay serve as a table when closed down on the bins. Apertures are cut in the back part of 'table H for small pockets a. There may be as many of these pockets as there are articles to be used. Small cans a are to be inserted in these pockets. One of the large bins may hold iiour and the other hold meal. l bin will not necessarily be full, I have prepared a tray or basket G, which can be inserted in the meal-bin A. This tray is adapted to hold four cans, which may contain tea, coifee, soda, and baking-powder. This tray rests on brackets R, which are soldered to the inside of the bin and may be removed whenever necessary by means of handles k. A box P is-provided for containing such utensils as ladles, spoons, graters, cake-cutters, biscuit-cutters, rolling-pins, and other articles too numerous to mention. This box is provided with a suitable lid and is mounted on the brace-.rods h by means of a hanger P', which is attached to the box. The hanger has each side edge turned so that the hanger can be suspended on the brace-rods and removed Whenever necessary. The meal-bin is provided With an airventilator m,which can be covered with gauze. The bins, pockets, cans, boX, tray, and hanger may be made of thin sheet metal.

Fig. 6 illustrates a variation which may be made without departing from my invention. Instead of making the cans and pockets cylindrical the cans may be made square with round corners, and a box may be mounted in the back part of the table I-l and partitions r pnt in the box. struction is that the cans would not turn in the pockets and names written or printed on the front part of the canswould always be in front. Each can is to have the name of the article which it holds printed thereon.

The bins A and B are made from a sheet of metal which is formed into a cylinder and from an ordinary tin basin, the parts being secured together at or on the line indicated at j. An aperture is made in the bottom of the basin for a vent and is closed by a corklined screw-cap. The legs are provided with rollers y.

As the meal-y The advantage in this con For convenience in raising the lids a small place is cut out of the edge of the lid at a slanting from the upper edge of the lid downward and backward in order to allow the fingers a hold to lift the lid.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l.l In a kitchen-cabinet the combination of a table provided with apertures, two bins mounted in said table, one of said bins having brackets attached to its interior wall, a tray mounted on said brackets, lids for said bins hinged to the top of said table, a number of pockets mounted in the apertures in the back part of said table, cans inserted in said pockets, and a box having a hanger attached thereto suspended on said table.

2. A kitchen-cabinet consisting of a board provided with molding adapted to strengthen the same, said board having apertures therein cast-i ron legs supporting said board,braces attached to said legs and to said board, cylindrical bins suspended in said apertures, and a box hanging on said braces.

3. In a kitchen-cabinet the combination of a board or platform having apertures therein and provided with molding adapted to strengthen said board, cast-iron legs supporting said board, braces attached to said legs and to said board, two cylindrical bins suspended in said apertures, lids for said bins hinged to said board, brackets attached to the interior wall of one of said bins, a tray mounted on said brackets, a number of pockets suspended in the rear part of said board, cans inserted in said pockets, and a box hanging on said braces.

In testimony whereof I set myhand, in the presence of two Witnesses, this 14th day of January, 1898.

p AUSTIN D. PALMER.

Witnesses:

OTTO E. MOUNIG,

M. A. JOHNSTON. 

